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MOTHER.REDUX.

Mother.Redux. is a 65 minute performance and collaboration with an inter-disciplinary  group of five women/mother performers. Going beyond the Hallmark card, we speak the unspoken, the shameful, and the hilarious. We expose the miracle of the transformation, as well as the sexism, racism, isolation and anxiety encountered along the way. Above all, Mother.Redux. is a work of love.

 

We pull from our diverse traditions, contemporary dance-theater, Afro-Brazilian dance, Filipino vaudeville, and West African dance and drumming. Each mother/dancer looks at what she has culturally inherited and how she is caught in the collision between expectations and reality. The writer/performers offer keen observations, wry humor and a physicality that is both precise and explosive.

Premiered at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica, CA

“speaks from the heart and soul” Accessibly Live Off Line

Choreographed by Christine Suarez in collaboration with the performers

Performed by Carmela Hermann, Carolina San Juan, Christine Suarez, Giavanni Washington, and Shelby Williams-Gonzalez

Written by Tessa Blake, Carmela Hermann, Carolina San Juan, Christine Suarez, Giavanni Washington, and Shelby Williams-Gonzalez

Directed by Tessa Blake

Costume design by James Kidd

Production design by Nathalie Renard

Lighting design: Pablo Santiago

 

Preview feature by Fanny Garcia:

http://playwritinginthecity.com/2014/03/01/mother-redux-takes-on-motherhood-at-miles-memorial-playhouse/

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